I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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